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Netlab Reference Manual demopt1
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<H1> demopt1
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Purpose
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Demonstrate different optimisers on Rosenbrock's function.

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Synopsis
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demopt1
demopt1(xinit)
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Description
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The four general optimisers (quasi-Newton, conjugate gradients, 
scaled conjugate gradients, and gradient descent) are applied to
the minimisation of Rosenbrock's well known `banana' function.
Each optimiser is run for at most 100 cycles, and a stopping
criterion of 1.0e-4 is used for both position and function value.
At the end, the trajectory of each algorithm is shown on a contour
plot of the function.

<p><CODE>demopt1(xinit)</CODE> allows the user to specify a row vector with
two columns as the starting point.  The default is the point [-1 1].
Note that the contour plot has an x range of [-1.5, 1.5] and a y
range of [-0.5, 2.1], so it is best to choose a starting point in the
same region.

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See Also
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<CODE><a href="conjgrad.htm">conjgrad</a></CODE>, <CODE><a href="graddesc.htm">graddesc</a></CODE>, <CODE><a href="quasinew.htm">quasinew</a></CODE>, <CODE><a href="scg.htm">scg</a></CODE>, <CODE><a href="rosen.htm">rosen</a></CODE>, <CODE><a href="rosegrad.htm">rosegrad</a></CODE><hr>
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<p>Copyright (c) Ian T Nabney (1996-9)


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